Events

New exhibition opening tomorrow from local artist Felicity Cavanough. Felicity creates intricate wire sculptures & paints a variety of subjects, inspired by every-day moments.

This selection of works from Orange Regional Gallery’s Collection presents various approaches to the still life genre. Ranging from works on paper, painting, photography and ceramics, each is an invitation to imagine the daily life and narratives of the objects, artists, and times from which they were made.

This exhibition includes recent acquisitions by John Olsen OAM, Elisabeth Cummings, Peter Boggs, Kevin Connor, Rachel Ellis, Hendrik Kolenberg, Margaret Loy Pula, Mandy Martin, Arthur McIntyre, Mavis Ngallametta, Tom Polo, David Serisier, Tim Storrier, Aida Tomescu and John R Walker. These are shown alongside collection highlights.

Exhibition will be opened by Sarah Gurich - Director of Bathurst Regional Art Gallery on Saturday 10 December 2-4pm.

One of the few sculptors who casts his own work, Laurence Edwards is fascinated by human anatomy and the metamorphosis of form and matter that governs the lost-wax process. His sculptures express the raw liquid power of bronze, its versatility, mass and evolution, and the variety of process marks he retains tell the story of how and why each work came to be.

The title expresses that after the Covid hiatus we have sprung back to life with renewed energy and vigour and a refreshed motivation to create new and different artworks.

Textile artist Leanne Wicks, Professor of Taxinema (Latin for  'yarning appearance') of Songlark University, presents a museological exposition of endangered bird species local to the region of Kandos, and associated Capertee and Cudgegong Valleys. She is also renowned for her behavioural studies of the cockatoos that have learnt to open her green bin. (Songlark University is an affiliate of KSCA, the Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation)

The landmark exhibition Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize explores the prize across its history, revealing fascinating stories behind 100 carefully selected artworks. It uncovers changes in society in engaging ways, enabling people to experience how artistic styles and approaches to portraiture have changed over a century.

Using the transformative power of the kiln to reclaim and reuse waste materials, the resulting works in reCLAYm are a manifesto for an innovative and environmentally aware approach to art making. Daly aims to inspire others to creatively reuse that which was considered useless, and to add his own ripples to this new wave of action and debate amongst artistic practitioners.  

This February, a variety of events and activities will be held during the Mid-Western Seniors Festival to celebrate the incredible seniors in our community.
Local artists, crafters, writers and photographers have entered their works in the Seniors Festival Competition which are now on display at the Mudgee Arts Precinct until 19 February.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible ~ Novalis

In Shadowlands, eight Central West artists explore the qualities of light and shadow through painting, paper, photography and textile installation. As shadows fall across landscape, interiors and figures, these small absences of light reveal the larger patterns of form, place and time. Including work by Bradley Bradley, Chanel Sohier, Eloise Maree, Joel Tonks, Laura Baker, Lilium Burrow, Linda Chant and Lulu Wulf.

Recognised and awarded as a finalist in The Kennedy Prize for Art in 2021 and 2022 and The Calleen Award in 2022, Quietlands is Fiona's latest collection depicting our Australian landscape.

Our extremely popular Group Show INSIDE THIS BOX is back for another year and we want to hear from you! Artists are invited to submit work of any medium or subject matter with measurements that fit within 30x30cm (this includes framing and must not exceed these dimensions).

Theme: Clouds.

Working the Waters takes its cue from the multiple modes of human engagement with the waters on the planet.  With an emphasis on the folly and resultant disasters of human psychology Working the Waters combines installation and immersive video to explore the liminal zone of the pedosphere where human action and water meet.

Waste to Art is an initiative of NetWaste & generously sponsored by SIMS Metal. The aim is to challenge people's perceptions about 'rubbish' and to celebrate the re-use and recycling of waste across the NetWaste region.